the gift – Anne Z

Day 452 of 1000: A Writer’s Retreat

When talent is naked and immature, it’s time to decree a moratorium on socializing, loving, and consuming.

Lewis Hyde writes as art as an agent of transformation. How art makes more artists.

Allan Ginsberg recommends writing secretly so you can be free to say anything you want. On painting and writing in private.

Consumer goods don’t satisfy, where gifts can, says Lewis Hyde in The Gift.

My grandmother made art for herself, and for her family. I do the same.

My wealth allows me to live the life of a full-time artist. My art can inspire other people, even as other artists inspire me.